Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Oct. 7, 1917 [October 7, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Sunny but very chilly because of
low temperature combined with fresh
S.E. [southeast] wind. White frost at sunrise.
Maple, hickory & sumac coloring about at best
Dooryard birds: 2 Cat-birds, 2 Towhees,
2 Song Sparrows & at least a dozen
White-throats [White-throated Sparrow] with as many more in Cedar Park.
Swainsons Thrush at foot of lane.
2 Rusty Blackbirds & half a dozen Jays
in Ritchie cornfield.
Marsh Hawk [male] ad. [adult] beating Howe meadow.
Yellow Palm warbler with Chippies [Chipping Sparrow] & Bluebirds
in apple tree by roadside, Nine Acre Corner.
  Starting at 9 A.M. Henry [Henry W. Henshaw] & I with
Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] & Timmy motored through Concord
to Nine Acre Corner & beyond - a very
attractive ride albeit a chilly one.
  In afternoon we took a walk through
Howe's meadow, past Holden's & Ball's 
Hills, over Davis Hill & back thro. [through]
Prescott pines & Birch Field.
  Davis swamp thickly sprinkled
throughout with Poison Dogwood
gorgeously colored. There used to be only
two bushes of it there.

Concord
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Oct. 8, 1917 [October 8, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Fair
Partly cloudy, largely sunny. Rather
cool despite fresh southerly wind.
  Dooryard birds: 2 Cat birds, an
uncertain number of White-throat
Sparrows [White-throated Sparrow] & Chippies [Chipping Sparrow] (probably not far
from a dozen of each species), several
young Goldfinches, several Yellow rump Warblers.
At Ritchie place 2 Towhees & at least
15 or 20 Jays the latter systematically
raiding our yellow corn. One & all first
alighted in big apple tree, next swooped
down & picked a single kernel from
the cob, without alighting, then flew off
with it to nearby woods, returning
presently for another kernel. Altho' [Although] this
has been going on daily for weeks
the total damage is thus far trifling only
a few cobs having been despoiled.
A Rusty Blackbird also in the corn.
A Pine Warbler singing faintly near 
Pulpit Rock.
  We began picking Baldwin apples this month.
Burbank & George picked all day from one 
tree which yielded upwards of 30 bushels.
I helped them in P.M. Spent most of A.M.
in woods with Zeph. Shot Gray Squirrel.
Henry [Henry W. Henshaw] went to Winchester & Boston for day.